Donna Deitch

Birthplace: San Francisco, California
Birthday: June 8, 1945

Though her feature credits have been scant to date, Donna Deitch has earned a very small but honorable place in American film history. More specifically, she has been a pioneer in the area of gay and lesbian cinematic representation as the producer and director of "Desert Hearts" (1985), generally acknowledged as the first "mainstream" feature to deal sympathetically and realistically with the lesbian experience.

Deitch purchased the film rights to Jane Rule's 1964 novel "Desert of the Hearts" and spent the …more

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Director

Sexual Advances
Director
The Devil's Arithmetic
Director
Prison Stories: Women on the Inside
Director ("Esperanza")
Prison Stories: Women on the Inside
Director ( Esperanza )
Common Ground
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Career Milestones

2000
Directed the Showtime drama "Common Ground"
1997
Released documentary "Angel on My Shoulder" which profiled actress Gwen Welles during her battle with, and subsequent death from, cancer in 1993
1996
Helmed the pilot for the ABC drama series "Second Noah"
1994
Directed the direct-to-video erotic thriller "Criminal Passion"
1991
Directed "Esperanza", a segment of "Prison Stories: Women on the Inside" on "HBO Showcase"